After notching up hits including Slam Dunk (Da Funk), Everybody Get Up, and number one Keep On Movin’, 5ive split up in 2001, but got back together - minus J - for ITV2’s Big Reunion in 2013.

Later that year, Abz appeared on Celebrity Big Brother, finishing as runner-up behind winner Charlotte Crosby, but then in 2014 he bowed out of another 5ive tour – and started thinking about a very different kind of lifestyle.

Along with his girlfriend, singer-songwriter Vicky Fallon, Abz this month he decided to swap city life for a smallholding in Wales. During the show, he said: “Moving to Wales was a complete shock to the system – the house, the chickens, the horses, the foxes, the cats, the splinters, the leaks, the grass, the gates, the fence, the rain...

“This being said, I have met some wonderful people with beautiful insights – I currently love my life.”